I noticed something interesting while checking out Left Behind: Eternal Forces the other day: The game has no minorities. I asked associate producer Greg Bauman about the seeming lack of minorities in the game and he confirmed it.

"All of the units are essentially Caucasian," he said, adding that it wasn't intentional.

"It was more a matter of which (models), quality wise, were good enough to make the grade," he said. "Since every person is unique and there is only so many body types, we had to limit how many models we were going to do. Otherwise we would have had to do hundreds and hundreds of models and that would have taken forever. So we stuck with the models we already have and we will add more. We already have both genders represented, so we will just add more ethnicities as we go."

I asked Bauman if he was worried that people might perceive the lack of minorities in the game as something racist. He reiterated that that wasn't the issue at all, adding that if you look at the plot of the book, it would simply mean that the minorities of the game were the ones that had ascended to heaven.

"The way we twist that around is to say, 'OK ,so all the white guys are the ones that got left behind'," he said. " There is no statement being made there."

The developers, most of whom are based in Kiev, are in the throes of finishing up the game, which is due out this October, but Bauman says that as future maps, missions and expansion packs come out, they will make sure to add new unit models, including minorities.

Expansion packs?

I can already see the packaging: Left Behind: Eternal Forces...Now with Minorities!!!! Brian Crecente

Note For more on Left Behind: Eternal Forces check out my sit down with the developers.